Mi-Shell
January 2. 2007
My card of the day is the 8 of Spikes:
Here is what the book says:
When the shaman calls the spirits and uses precise timing to focus power, the smoking iron feathers on her costume transform into real feathers for magical flight. A caracara spirit blows fiery music into a bird bone flute, a gift of inspired, innovative communication. The caracara is a rare south western grassland relative of the falcons. It is famous for preying on rattlesnakes but usually eats carrion. Intelligent and curious, it has a wild but confiding presence, like an American Garuda, the mythical benevolent vulture spirit of Tibetan and South Asian mythology.
The shaman's songs and stories inspire the people and remind them who they are. A shaman knows the languages of animals, plants, and the earth itself, and acts as a translator for the people. She may speak to the spirits using her own secret language. She knows that to name is to call, and sometimes her visions can only be described in ways that are mysterious to others, yet compelling and unforgettable. She sees when the time is right for a swift flight of inspired words that linger like the memory of a bonfire.
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Shamans in Siberia wear elaborate outfits; so called shamainc costumes with many iron implements hanging from it. The weight of these aids in tiring out the shaman while dancing and so foster an altered state of consciousness due to exhaustion.
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The Caracara is a rather special bird to me because it was/ is the Medicine Guide / helper of one of my Native American teachers from the Apache tribe.
.... And then a Caracara I “met in the field in northern Mexico was strangely unafraid; observing our campsite and coming real close, displaying almost clown-like behaviour.
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This last part of the description is almost too close to what I do on a daily basis for me to comment....
I do not use secret language but since I speak Inde’ and many of my chants and songs come out in Inde’ or lately in Ojibwa it may feel like that to a casual observer.
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..... And then there is the Power of NAMING the PROBLEM!!!
If you name it you claim it as existing and real, = you acknowledge it, then you can change it!
This thought process is often ritualzed to help a client and the community.
My card of the day is the 8 of Spikes:
Here is what the book says:
When the shaman calls the spirits and uses precise timing to focus power, the smoking iron feathers on her costume transform into real feathers for magical flight. A caracara spirit blows fiery music into a bird bone flute, a gift of inspired, innovative communication. The caracara is a rare south western grassland relative of the falcons. It is famous for preying on rattlesnakes but usually eats carrion. Intelligent and curious, it has a wild but confiding presence, like an American Garuda, the mythical benevolent vulture spirit of Tibetan and South Asian mythology.
The shaman's songs and stories inspire the people and remind them who they are. A shaman knows the languages of animals, plants, and the earth itself, and acts as a translator for the people. She may speak to the spirits using her own secret language. She knows that to name is to call, and sometimes her visions can only be described in ways that are mysterious to others, yet compelling and unforgettable. She sees when the time is right for a swift flight of inspired words that linger like the memory of a bonfire.
................................
Shamans in Siberia wear elaborate outfits; so called shamainc costumes with many iron implements hanging from it. The weight of these aids in tiring out the shaman while dancing and so foster an altered state of consciousness due to exhaustion.
...................................
The Caracara is a rather special bird to me because it was/ is the Medicine Guide / helper of one of my Native American teachers from the Apache tribe.
.... And then a Caracara I “met in the field in northern Mexico was strangely unafraid; observing our campsite and coming real close, displaying almost clown-like behaviour.
.............................
This last part of the description is almost too close to what I do on a daily basis for me to comment....
I do not use secret language but since I speak Inde’ and many of my chants and songs come out in Inde’ or lately in Ojibwa it may feel like that to a casual observer.
..................................
..... And then there is the Power of NAMING the PROBLEM!!!
If you name it you claim it as existing and real, = you acknowledge it, then you can change it!
This thought process is often ritualzed to help a client and the community.
